University of Delaware’s Research Farm

Learning about composting.
Learning about composting.

For our class’s final field trip , we went to none other than our university’s own research farm that consists of multiple farms. Due to my major I had been to the farm before. We started at the dairy farm and learned about some of the research being conducted with dairy cows at the university. Then we traveled to the horse stables where I learned that horses could stop labor and then proceed to run away from any danger. After that ,we walked over to the sheep and talked about the lambs there. Among other things, we learned about manure/ composting and how the farm takes care of it and other wastes. Having been to the research farm and various parts of it before I thought that I knew pretty much everything that was on the farm, but I was surprised to learn that there was an apiary (beehives) on the farm. I guess it just goes to show that even if you think you know everything you can still learn something new every day.

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